Stoloteuthis Explained

Stoloteuthis is a small genus of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae and the subfamily Heteroteuthidinae with one species, Stoloteuthis leucoptera, which is found in the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and the southwestern Pacific Ocean.^[1] The other species, Stoloteuthis japonica. was described in 2011 from a type specimen collected off northeastern Honshu.^[2]

Species

Recognised species of Stoloteuthis:

• Stoloteuthis cthulhui Fernández-Álvarez, Sánchez & Villanueva, 2021
• Stoloteuthis japonica Kubodera & Okutani, 2011
• Stoloteuthis leucoptera (Verrill, 1878)
• Stoloteuthis maoria (Dell, 1959)
• Stoloteuthis weberi (Joubin, 1902)

Synonyms:

• Stoloteuthis iris Berry, 1909: synonym of Iridoteuthis iris (Berry, 1909) (original combination)
• Stoloteuthis leucopterus (Verrill, 1878): synonym of Stoloteuthis leucoptera (Verrill, 1878) (Spelling variation)
• Stoloteuthis nipponensis Berry, 1911: synonym of Sepiolina nipponensis (Berry, 1911) (original combination)

External links

• Verrill A. E. (1880). The Cephalopods of the North-Eastern coast of America. Part II. The smaller Cephalopods, including the "squids" and the octopi, with other allied forms.. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 5: 259-446
• Vecchione, M. & Roper, C.F.E. (2014). Stoloteuthis Verrill, 1881. Version 21 January 2014
• Reid, A.L. (2021). Two new species of Iridoteuthis (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae: Heteroteuthinae) from the southwest Pacific, with a redescription of Stoloteuthis maoria (Dell, 1959). Zootaxa. 5005(4): 503-537

Notes and References

1. Allcock, L. . Louise Allcock . Barratt, I. . 2012 . Stoloteuthis leucoptera . . 2012 . e.T162502A903824 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162502A903824.en. free . Downloaded on 10 February 2018.
2. Tsunemi Kuboder . Takashi Okutani . 2011 . New Additions of Luminous Bobtail Squids to the Japanese Cephalopod Fauna (Sepiolida: Sepiolidae: Heteroteuthinae . Venus . 69 . 3-4 . 145–161.